: Feeling no *comfort factor*, he withdraws. As an added precaution, Pod puts some daylight between himself and the odd-sized animals.

: My question: What does he mean by comfort factor", somehow it doen't make sense here.

: Thank you very much

: By the way I have a problem also with "put some daylight between himself..." but I stills have'nt try to dig into it.

Comfort factor is a safety margin.

"Put daylight between" means to create a clear gap between two things. A phrase popular recently in politics was to create/put/keep clear blue water between the policies of one party and another to show that they were different.